The Chinese lead the MIT in the development of atomic chips, with an alarming gap, and the United States is leading again.
2019 was a watershed moment in China's chip revolution, when Huawei was hit by old US sanctions, and many of its companies were affected. Taking Huawei mobile phones as an example, in the second quarter of 2020, Huawei's mobile phone sales were still the first in the world. And by the end of 2022, the sales of Huawei mobile phones have dropped to"Miscellaneous", Huawei is not visible on the mobile phone sales list.
In addition to mobile phones, Huawei's chip business has stagnated, the 5G business has been surpassed by Qualcomm, and even Huawei's vaunted communication business has made slow progress and has been suppressed by all parties.
As a benchmark for national technology companies, Huawei has not yet been able to withstand the long-term suppression of the United States, let alone other companies. In the face of this situation, the people spoke out: basic technology will not come, or it will not be bought, and only by mastering its own technology will it not be stifled.
Driven by "People's **", domestic semiconductor companies began to silently devote themselves to research and development to achieve breakthroughs in chip technology.
For example, Loongson has made a breakthrough in 4nm wafer packaging technologyThere is a new development in the possibility of EDA electronic tools reaching the 3nm process node;The first photonic wafer production line in Hefei was officially unveiledLoongson in science ** Loongson 3A6000 wafer problem.
The most striking thing is that the team of Harbin Institute of Technology has manufactured an ultra-high-speed precision laser interferometer, which provides technical support for China's 28-nanometer lithography technology and a technical reserve for 7-nanometer lithography technology.
Objectively speaking, the progress of China's chip technology in recent years is obvious to all. In a word, this is: it took us 3 years to complete the 10-year work of foreign chip companies.
Unfortunately, in the face of the breakthrough of China's chip technology, a considerable number of people have begun to be complacent, and these people think that our chip technology has surpassed Europe and the United States and other countries, and they can look down on the chip technology of Europe and the United States.
So, is this really the case?The answer is no, because the United States has achieved a new breakthrough in chip technology, which is worthy of our vigilance.
Some time ago, a number of American ** reports that the research team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched a new technology, which is an atomic-thin transistor made of MOS2 material.
To distinguish traditional silicon-based wafers from more advanced photonic and quantum wafers, the industry refers to such wafers as:"Atomic wafers"。
So, what are the advantages of atomic chips?Atomic wafers have been reported to allow electrons on wafers to adopt a new form of motion, so atomic wafers consume less energy and have more computing power than traditional silicon-based wafers.
If this wafer technology is popularized and used in industrial production, a new revolution will begin for the wafer industry in the United States.
For the technological breakthrough of the MIT research team, some foreign leaders have to praise and say: American integrated circuit technology is leading the trend again. And the most attentive people found that many of the researchers on the MIT team were Chinese, which made some netizens feel helpless.
Whether it is the new chip technology of the MIT research team, the Chinese team at MIT, or the progress of China's chip technology, it is a wake-up call for us to recognize the gap!
The first is the progress of domestic chip technology, objectively speaking, China's chip industry still has the following problems, one is the weak technical foundation. Second, there is a lack of infrastructure. Third, the supply of the industrial chain is not perfect. Due to the disadvantages of these three aspects, even if China has made a number of breakthroughs in integrated circuit technology, we still have a big gap compared with companies in Europe and the United States.
Secondly, the atomic wafer technology of the MIT research team, realistically speaking, the wafer industry can develop to the current scale, which is inseparable from the advantages of Laomei in technology research and development and first-class chain distribution. The former United States dominated the upstream industrial chain of the chip industry and made a lot of profits. At the same time, the former United States has transferred the middle and lower reaches of the industrial chain to Europe, South Korea, Japan and other places, which is also believed to have created the current pattern of the chip industry.
It can be seen that in the development of the chip industry, the former United States is still at the forefront of the world, and these shortcomings must be recognized.
Finally, the Chinese figures in the MIT research team, the former United States has many abilities, but the most powerful ability is to find talent all over the world. These people worked for the former United States and developed a large number of technological and technological innovations for the former United States. So we can see that there is still a gap between us and the former United States in terms of attracting talent.
There is an old Chinese saying:"Pride makes people backward, humility makes people progress"。Although domestic tablet companies have actively innovated and made breakthroughs in tablet technology under the influence of Huawei's incident, we must still recognize the gap between us and European and American countries and cannot rest on our laurels.
Only by learning with an open, cautious and pragmatic attitude and getting rid of dependence on Europe and the United States as soon as possible can we achieve further progress in China's chip technology.